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2020-07-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran says ex-defense worker executed for selling info to CIA
[IsraelTimes] Reza Asgari was hanged last week, front man says, adding that execution of another man, accused of spying on brass hats for CIA and Mossad, has not yet been carried out.

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
executed a former employee of the Defense Ministry after he was convicted of selling information on the country’s missile program to the US Central Intelligence Agency, a spokesperson for the judiciary announced Tuesday.

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Gholamhossein Esmaili said the trial of Reza Asgari ended last week and he was hanged at its conclusion, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported.

According to the report, Esmaili said Asgari retired in 2012 and then began to sell the information to the American spy agency, but was under surveillance by security authorities.

"In the last years of his service, he joined the CIA, he sold information about our missiles ... to the CIA and took money from them," Esmaili said. "He was identified, tried and sentenced to death."

There were no specific details given on the information Asgari was alleged to have passed or whether it was linked to a series of recent mysterious explosions to rock an Iranian nuclear facility and other sensitive sites.

The explosions have been largely attributed to either Washington, Jerusalem, or both.

In the most significant instance, extensive damage was caused to a uranium enrichment facility used for centrifuge production at the Natanz nuclear site. Another blast "appeared to come from the direction of a missile base," The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported.

A week before the Natanz blast, a kaboom was felt in Tehran, apparently caused by a kaboom at the Parchin military complex, which defense analysts believe holds an underground tunnel system and missile production facilities.

Esmaili additionally said that the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
for Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, an Iranian accused of spying for the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, had not yet been carried out.

Last month, Iran said it would execute Mousavi Majd, who had been living in Syria and was allegedly paid by the two agencies.

He was accused of being in contact with Iranian military advisers operating in the country while gathering intelligence on Iran’s defense minister, the Revolutionary Guards’ extraterritorial Quds Force and the movements of military officials, including Quds Force chief Gen. Qassem Soleimani
, who was killed in a US Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Baghdad in January.

In June, Iran said another alleged spy, Jalal Hajizavar, was hanged in a prison near Tehran. The report said Hajizavar — also a former staffer of the defense ministry — had admitted in court that he was paid to spy for the CIA. The report said authorities had also confiscated espionage equipment from his residence. It said the court sentenced Hajizavar’s wife to 15 years in prison for her role in the espionage.

Iran in February handed down a sentence for Amir Rahimpour, another man convicted of spying for the US and conspiring to sell information on Iran’s nuclear program.

Tehran announced in December it had arrested eight people "linked to the CIA" and involved in nationwide street protests that erupted the previous month over a surprise petrol price hike.

It also said in July 2019 that it had dismantled a CIA spy ring, arrested 17 suspects between March 2018 and March 2019 and sentenced some of them to death.

US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
at the time dismissed the claim as "totally false."
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 a former employee of the Defense Ministry

was in charge of the photo-shopping division....
Posted by Mercutio 2020-07-15 05:54||   2020-07-15 05:54|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure there's a list of CIA/Mossad spies masquerading as 'journalists'. Just saying.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-07-15 20:33||   2020-07-15 20:33|| Front Page Top

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